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Free Guided Tours & Butterfly Talk at The Native Plant Center
Sunday, July 20
12 noon - 4 p.m.
Open to the Public (Rain or Shine)
Park at the end of Lot # 1 at Westchester Community College in Valhalla, New York
Are you wild about wildflowers? Come to The Native Plant Center’s demonstration gardens and imagine how wildflowers and native plants would spice up your garden! Volunteer guides will showcase the gardens and answer questions about various plants and flowers. Tours of both the Lady Bird Johnson Demonstration Garden and the Stone Cottage Garden will be given. Native plants will be for sale as well, including some from our own demonstration gardens.
Butterfly talk at 3:00 p.m. with Nancy Hough
Nancy Hough has been raising butterflies for release in the wild for many years. She intends to bring her homemade boxes with caterpillar eggs, caterpillars, cocoons, milkweed plants and adult butterflies, although what she is able to bring will depend on the weather and the mama monarchs. Did you know that the odds of an egg becoming a butterfly in the wild are 4 in 100?
• Learn which plants will attract monarchs and why it is so important to cultivate these plants. • Learn how to collect eggs from milkweed. • Learn what to do with the eggs to ultimately be releasing healthy butterflies back to the wild.
Learn which plants will attract monarchs and why it is so important to cultivate these plants. • Learn how to collect eggs from milkweed. • Learn what to do with the eggs to ultimately be releasing healthy butterflies back to the wild.
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